Rodrigo Muñoz Avia
Rodrigo Muñoz Avia nació en Madrid en 1967. Estudió Filosofía en la Universidad Complutense y se formó durante tres años en la Escuela de Letras de Madrid.
Su última obra, publicada en 2021, es "La tienda de la felicidad", una novela epistolar que narra la vida de un personaje entrañable y disparatado que se relaciona con el mundo a través del correo electrónico. En palabras de Rosa Montero: "Humor, amor, un protagonista inolvidable y un poso de irremediable melancolía en esta reinvención de la novela epistolar que, bajo las risas, hace un agudo retrato de la fragilidad humana y del absurdo de la vida".
En 2019 publica "La casa de los pintores", un libro en el que narra la vida con sus padres, los pintores Lucio Muñoz y Amalia Avia, un testim
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Born in a working-class district of Paris, Perec was the only son of Icek Judko and Cyrla (Schulewicz) Peretz, Polish Jews who had emigrated to France in the 1920s. He was a distant relative of the Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz.
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Se trasladó a Madrid en 1950 y se doctoró en la Universidad de Madrid con la tesis Usos amorosos del XVIII en España. Ignacio Aldecoa, cuya obra estudiaría posteriormente, la introdujo en su círculo literario, donde conoció a Josefina Aldecoa, Alfonso Sastre, Juan Benet, Medardo Fraile, Jesús Fernández Santos y Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, con quien se casó en 1954. De esta manera se incluyó en la que sería conocida como la Generación del 55 o Generación de la Posguerra. -
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Juan Tallón
Juan Tallón Salgado, nacido en Vilardevós (Ourense) en 1975, es un periodista y escritor gallego.
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Licenciado en Filosofía, trabaja en el campo del periodismo y la comunicación.
Fue corresponsal del periódico La Región y después jefe de prensa de la Secretaría General de Emigración hasta 2008. Trabajó en la Cadena SER, en la revista Jot Down, y en El Progreso.
Participante en diferentes publicaciones colectivas, obtuvo con su primera novela el VI Premio Nicomedes Pastor Díaz.
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Beatriz Giménez de Ory
Autora de literatura infantil, nacida en Madrid en 1972. Se licenció en Filología Hispánica y lleva años dedicándose a la docencia como profesora de Lengua y Literatura Española.
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Aparte de algún trabajo como traductora, Giménez de Ory se inició en la escritura con relatos para adultos (obtuvo el XI Premio Internacional “Círculo Cultural Faroni” de Relato Hiperbreve en 2003), aunque pronto cambió sus preferencias por la literatura infantil. Lectora apasionada de clásicos de la literatura y, sobre todo, de poesía, sus obras infantiles se caracterizan precisamente por ser escritas en verso. Y no le ha ido nada mal, puesto que con ellas ha logrado varios reconocimientos importantes, como el III Premio Internacional Ciudad de Orihuela de Poesía -
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Estudió en los colegios públicos Virgen del Rosario de Ontígola y Vicente Aleixandre de Aranjuez, y en el IES Alpajés de esta última localidad, en la que trabajaba su padre. En Aranjuez estudió Comunicación Audiovisual y Periodismo en la Universida -
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Nació y se crio en el barrio de San Blas en Madrid, y se licenció en Historia, especializándose en Historia Medieval, por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Es escritora, dramaturga y directora escénica.
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